Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a try, Britain's new Admiral of the Fleet is a daring, dynamic commander. Tall, hawk-browed Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 62, commanded the Colossus at Jutland. Six years ago, calling (like Winston Churchill) for Britain to rebuild her fleet, he predicted just what he had on his hands last week: "a hell of a fight...
From Britain's air bases in the Midlands to Germany's naval bases at Cuxhaven, Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb?is some 500 miles. Both sides presently acknowledged that British bombers had gone to work on Germany's fleet at these ports, Britain claiming damaging hits on at least two battleships, Germany claiming to have shot down five out of twelve bombers. Soon to be settled, apparently, was the question of supremacy between airplanes and battleships. The answer has vital bearing on the Mediterranean question mark...
...hrer's bombshell. There were no bold moves, flaming pronouncements, or grandiose imaginative surprises aimed at unnerving their potential enemy. Stories were of a first deep shock, a quick recovery, then of wheels turning, of preparations, meetings, mobilizations. Unlike the period before Munich, when the fleet was mobilized before the Army, when British and French diplomats seemed to work at cross purposes, no hitches or jerks showed in British-French preparations. Parliament assembled smoothly and gravely. War powers went to the Government without recrimination, without distrust. Whatever arguments developed behind the scenes over policy and timing, flawless diplomatic coordination...
Ordinarily France's reservists get their call to the colors quietly, by mail. It was so last September, before Munich. This time, Daladier commandeered a fleet of Paris busses and taxicabs, formed them into "bucket brigades" with brushes & paste to plaster Paris after midnight with the neat white posters, bearing the crossed flags of the Republic, which spell Mobilization. Next day, the north and east Paris railroad stations were jammed with scores of thousands of young men, averaging in age about 25 years, some in khaki, some in the old horizon blue, most in civilian clothes with their extra...
...Harlow system and a fleet set of backs will give Harvard an unbeatable attack, If given some measure of support by the line. Blocking is an obvious weakness of this year's backfield . . . its inexperienced line is an unknown quantity...